The annual Samuel J. Heyman awards recognize the achievements of federal workers throughout the U.S. government.
Diverting an asteroid, fixing a student loan system and Operation Trojan Shield among the successful initiativesPeople exit the U.S. Energy Department. From the outside, the federal government in Washington, D.C., is simple and clean; monolithic buildings made of white stone and glass, manicured lawns and symmetrical shrubs, impressive bronze statues commemorating history. The austerity of it all masks the messy, complicated problems people are untangling and solving within.
Harkins and Schoen both joined the State Department’s Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs in the fall of 2021. Harkins, a former Peace Corps volunteer, successfully helped to release seven wrongfully detained Americans, including five Citgo executives held for nearly five years. Two Americans, Eyvin Hernandez and Jerrel Kenemore, are still imprisoned in Venezuela.
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